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WEEK IN REVIEW 5/3 TO 5/7
May 11, 2010
Contact: Jennifer Drogus
Week in Review: May 3 to 7
Military News:
The Army has designated the month of May as Mental Health Month. This year’s 2010 theme to promote health and wellness is “Live Your Life Well – Promoting Health and Wellness in the Army.” To read more about this program, please click here.
This week, I co-sponsored H.Res. 1207, a bill that recognizes the way Americans came together to win WWII and in doing so, made aviation history. An entire generation of enterprising Americans on the home front and over the battlefields of WWII revolutionized the aviation industry and ensured the freedoms we enjoy today. The museum captures many of these stories that continue to have great power to teach and inspire future generations. This is a teaching museum that provides educational opportunities to all age groups.
Here are just a few highlights of what the museum brings to life:
Here are just a few highlights of what the museum brings to life:
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How a nation came together as never before or since, and the many stories behind the great effort;
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How pilots and their support personnel, whose courage and patriotism remain a source of inspiration, changed the course of world history;
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The unique partnership between civilian and military expertise that created a winning aviation team;
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The surge in industrial productivity that overwhelmed our adversaries;
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The introduction of women into the workforce and the aircraft designers and builders whose innovtaions created entirely new technologies for flying
The National Museum of World War II Aviation in Colorado Springs is the only museum in the world to focus exclusively and in scholarly depth on the wartime mobilization, development and deployment of the most successful flying fighting force in history. The Museum does this to preserve and strengthen the best traditions of the American aviation past and inspire new generations of leaders and innovators in the future.
Foreign Affairs News:
On March 29, 2010, I joined my fellow Members of the House of Representatives in sending a letter to President Barack Obama asking that he stop providing American taxpayer dollars to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). In the past few months, the Obama Administration has pledged nearly $100 million to UNRWA – an agency that has consistently failed to properly screen its staff or its aid recipients for links to foreign terrorist organization, including Hamas, Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martys’ Bridgade, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Commercial Bank of Syria. This is in direct violation of U.S. law.
Unfortunately, the President has not adequately responded to this request. In fact, he hascontinued to support taxpayer funding of UNRWA. As such, I have joined a number of my colleagues in co-sponsoring a bill, H.R. 5065, which would make it crystal clear that it is against U.S. law to provide financial assistance to UNRWA as long as UNRWA refuses to divest itself from members of foreign terrorist organizations. Ensuring that hardworking Americans are not supporting terrorist organizations abroad should not be a partisan issue, it is a moral and legal issue on which I hope that President Obama and I can agree.
To view the text of this legislation, please click here.
Water Update:
This week, I will join my colleagues on the Water Caucus to host the beginning of a series of briefings on regional water issues, titled “Let’s Talk About Water.” The first educational briefing is this five-part series will focus on the Tri-State Water Wars as well supply and allocation issues unique to the Southeast region of the United States.
Water is one of the major challenges for our country, and the world in the twenty-first century. The changing water dynamics are manifesting themselves in competing states’ interests, legacy and aging infrastructure, the lack of basic and easily accessible water data, outdated water plans, lawsuits between states, and conflicting Federal laws. We have to get our hands around these problems before it is too late.
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